The Faculty Glade at UC Berkeley, and the famous bollards: Now, how did those kids get up there? At the University of California in Ber...

Sometime around 700 BC, the Assyrians began arranging sets of wedge-shaped stones to span drainage channels. From this humble beginning came...

It's practically never necessary to completely gut the interior of a fine old building. When I was growing up in a small California...

Sometimes a bay window is enough to give a room  the illusion of more space. This is one of the cheapest and simplest kinds of bumpout. ...

Traditional, or a grab-bag of cliches? Ironically, one of the downfalls of modern architecture was its very simplicity.  The designs of ...

Today, a nice solid subject:  Brick. A professor of mine called it the Sara Lee of building materials.  “Nobody doesn’t like it,” he said. ...

A while back I wrote a piece about the colorful and often impolite ter ms used by building contractors. Well, architects have some strange j...